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Mimon died aged 66 yêats. CaiSAB tlied aged 55 years. Napoleon died aged 52 years. CoLfMHu died aged 64 years. Bichembu died aged 57 years. SHAjRfi'EARi! died aged 52 years. Henrï VIII. died aged 56 years. Rtc'habu III. died agüA 32 years. Lord BtUOM died agesl 38 years. Aabon Burr diei aged 80 years. Demosthenbs died aged 53 years. John Hancock died aged 56 years, Robert Burns died aged 36 years. Wjlliam Pitt died aged 47 yearn. WiLtiiAM Cowper died aged 69 years. Qüeen Elizabeth died aged 69 years. Alexander Hamilton died aged 47 years. Chakles Jame? Fox died aged 37 years. Mabt, Queen of Scots, died aged 45 years. Ahekicans eat twice as mucli salt as the English. Repobts trom Cork avcr that the potato disease is universal over the aouth of Irelaud. The Eochester Iltrald has a delicious way of refusing original poetiy: " Onr paper is not worthy of your lines," it says. France and Switzerland exhibit more clocks and watchcs at the Paris exhibition than ali the other coutitries put together. Mr. Thomas Mort, who spent $500,000 trying to solve the problem of sending frozen meat to England, has died in Australia. In Massaohusetts large numbers of birds are found dead in potato fields, killed by Paris green scattered for the destruction of potato bugs. Of the 3,000 waiters on the White mouiitains this season, 1,000 are amateurs from seminaries and colleges. Vassar aiid Williams íurnish a great many. McKean eounty, Fa., now produces one-third of the petroleum of the country, having rifen to that figure within two years. Since 1870 the population has increased from 8,000 to 30,000. The cotton erop of the present year will be the largest since the war, and is estimateU at 4,700,000 bales. In 1859-60 the erop amounted to 4 861,000 bales ; 1870-71, 4, 437,900 baks; 1875-76, 4,632,000 bales ; 1876-77, 4,474,000. Gen. Butler, with characteristic oriftinality, says : " Any man who is to be President had better not look for it, because, although it may seem paradoxical, the nearer a man gets to be President the further he is from it." In that part of the city of St. John, X. Bi, whioh was burned thirteen months ago, there have been erected or are in courso of erection 536 wooden buildings, and 352 of stoue and briok, the total value heilig in excess ot 84,000,000. Tea raised in South Carolina and prepared in Baltimore, was lately exhibited in Washington to dealers, who were unable to distinguish it from siraiI lar varieties of Chinese and Japanese growth. The Mennouites, whose religious faith prohibits their participation in war, are now free from military duty in Russia, but will no longer be exempt af ter 1880. Henee their nunierous migration to America. The 23,000 milis of the United States turn out annually 50,000,000 barrels of flour, 4,000,000 barrels of which are exported. The anmial wages paid to emploves anjount to $20,000,000. Babs of pure go1. 3, wighing tweuty i ounces each, have been plowed up at or near Lexingïon, Ii. C, to the value of $10,000. It is supposed to be the proceeds of a stage robbery committed soise fortv-live years ago. A newly-married man, who övidently needs discipline, thus discourses : "A woman is a handy thing to have abont the house. She does not cost any more to keep than you'll give her, and slie'll take a great interest in you." The manufacturers of celluloid collars, cuffs, neck-ties, etc., have been unable to supply the demand for these new articles of wearing apparel. A they are perspiration proof, they have found great favor in this hot weather. A LTCTiiT? boy in Baltimore was liter ally pinched to death by the mother of one of his playmates with whom he had quarreled. She pinched his arm so terribly that the swellings reached the shoulder, and eventually caused the lad's death. The gross receipts for the yoar 1877 from all the railways now open in India, [ includirig guaranteed and State lines. ! were L11,149,856. The expenses of maintenance and workings were L1,883,115, leaviag as net earnings the snm of L6,2G6,7il. The capital expended up to the end of the year was about L113,500,000. On thisamountnet proütg at the rate of L5 lOs 6d per cent. per annum were accordingly earned. Tue great Sutro tunnel is iubstantiaily completed, but no understanding has been reached with the managers ot the Comstock minos - for which it is intended as a meaos of communication, ventilation and drainage - as to the price to be paid for its uso. Mr. Sutro has n strong bulkhead in rcadinessto be closed, which would dam the water in the mines and soon fill tJiem. He says that he will resort to this extreme fiwaattie if what he regsrds as reasonabie terms are notcomplied with.